[BProc] Re: broadcast in startup files (beoboot)

[Michal J. <mi...@ha...>]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:17:23AM -0600, er...@he... wrote:
> 
> The problem here is that ipcalc doesn't exist on everywhere.  It's a
> Red Hat-ism, I believe.  The SuSE systems I'm using don't have it.
> I'd like to be more vendor neutral if possible.

OK, but ipcalc although convenient is far from necessary here.
We have an address and a mask so we can produce a broadcast address
using, likely only, a shell.

Later on when I will have some fifteen minutes for that I will make
up something.

> One option would be to leave interface configuration out of beoboot
> and let people do that using whatever distribution provided mechanism
> they have.  There might be fewer collisions that way too.

OTOH this will force everybody to hack their startup files and
for many this may be a PITA.  I think that this is a bit too
radical.

> The rc.clustermatic script is the only piece that looks at the
> addresses on the interface lines.  bpmaster and beoserv look at those
> lines to get interface names, not addresses.  The daemons all get
> addresses directly from the interface (as they should).

That is true but probably not a good enough reason to configure
interfaces to some random values. :-)

   Michal